• About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
Sunday, May 28, 2023
The Iowa Torch
  • Home
  • State Government
  • Federal Government
  • Local Government
  • Politics
  • Education
  • Opinion
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • State Government
  • Federal Government
  • Local Government
  • Politics
  • Education
  • Opinion
The Iowa Torch
The Iowa Torch
No Result
View All Result
Home Federal Government

Grassley: Biden Screwed Up Afghanistan Withdrawal

During his weekly Capitol Hill Report on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said President Joe Biden "screwed up" the United States' exit from Afghanistan. 

Shane Vander HartbyShane Vander Hart
August 18, 2021
in Federal Government
Reading Time: 2 mins read
Grassley: Big Victories for Rural Healthcare

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (Official Portrait 2017)

DES MOINES, Iowa – During his weekly Capitol Hill Report on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said President Joe Biden “screwed up” the United States’ exit from Afghanistan. 

RELATED POSTS

Ernst says Senate must act to protect women’s sports

U.S. House passes debt ceiling bill after removing biofuels tax credit cuts

Ernst demands SBA prioritize fraud detection and prevention after widespread PPP fraud

“It’s quite obvious that Biden screwed up by not listening to the warnings from his intelligence community and his leaders in the Defense Department. Because they were warning him that this takeover by the Taliban could have could happen the way it now has happened. They didn’t know for sure, but what they were warning was a possibility turned out to be true,” Grassley said, responding to a question by Brian Fancher with KLMJ Radio in Hampton, Iowa.

He noted that all the United States can currently do is to get American citizens and Afghan allies out as quickly as possible. 

Grassley is concerned that the Taliban will reverse all of the gains for women and children in Afghanistan, and he did not hold out much hope that they wouldn’t. 

“After the Taliban take over, pray that there’ll be a little bit different than they were before, which isn’t much to hope for. But do everything we can through the U.N. and the international community to make sure that they don’t do what we expect they’re going to do (which) is hurt the human rights of women and children, all the gains that have been made over the last two decades for women and children in that country,” he added.

“It looks like (the) Taliban, for religious reasons, have a different view of how women and children should be treated. Can you imagine child marriages as an example? Can you imagine women not going outside without their male partner with them, etc.? It’s just kind of a sad commentary, but I don’t expect that there’s much we can do, except just through international pressure. And I’m not sure how effective that’s going to be, only time will tell,” Grassley said.

Aaron Summers with the Pocahontas Record Democrat asked Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator what Biden could have done differently.

“If he had followed the advice of his generals and admirals, he probably would have had a slower removal of American troops. And he would have started to exit, particularly the people, the Afghans that have helped us that their life is now in jeopardy because they were working with the Americans and NATO groups. And those are the steps he could have taken. But if he had taken those steps, he probably would have saved a lot of people that maybe won’t be saved now,” Grassley said.

ADVERTISEMENT

Listen to the full segment below:

Tags: AfghanistanChuck GrassleyJoe Biden
ShareTweetShare
ADVERTISEMENT
Previous Post

Axne Targeted by National Pro-Life Group

Next Post

Iowa DOT Research and Strategies Rollout Projected to Save $2 Billion

Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart

Shane Vander Hart is the editor of The Iowa Torch.

Related Posts

Bio Ethanol on the Way
Opinion

Miller-Meeks: Iowa is the future of renewable energy

May 23, 2023
Iowa House Passes ‘Back the Blue’ Legislation
Opinion

Miller-Meeks: Honoring law enforcement

May 16, 2023
Ernst: Let’s build the border wall instead of charging taxpayers to babysit materials
Opinion

Ernst: Biden’s border blind eye

May 16, 2023
black handled key on key hole
Opinion

Feenstra: President Biden’s unfair mortgage rule punishes responsible homeowners

May 11, 2023
speed train on rail
Opinion

Ernst: Hitting the brakes on Biden’s boondoggle gravy train

May 1, 2023
U.S. House passes debt ceiling bill after removing biofuels tax credit cuts
Federal Government

U.S. House passes debt ceiling bill after removing biofuels tax credit cuts

April 27, 2023
Next Post
Iowa DOT Research and Strategies Rollout Projected to Save $2 Billion

Iowa DOT Research and Strategies Rollout Projected to Save $2 Billion

DeJear Explores Gubernatorial Campaign

DeJear Officially Launches Gubernatorial Campaign

Sign-Up For Our Daily Updates

Get The Iowa Torch right in your inbox!

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!

Recommended Articles

Ginn and Hendrickson: We Need Calvin Coolidge’s Fiscal Conservatism

Ginn and Hendrickson: We Need Calvin Coolidge’s Fiscal Conservatism

August 20, 2021
Rowley Wins Republican Nomination for Iowa Senate District 1

Rowley Wins Special Election in Iowa Senate District 1

December 16, 2021
Reynolds joins letter asking Biden, Trudeau to reinstate vaccine, quarantine exemptions

Reynolds joins letter asking Biden, Trudeau to reinstate vaccine, quarantine exemptions

February 18, 2022

Popular Stories

  • Bio Ethanol on the Way

    Miller-Meeks: Iowa is the future of renewable energy

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Harris: How to win in Iowa

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Hendrickson & Timmons: Making Iowa more competitive through occupational licensing reform

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Feenstra: Standing with our men and women in blue

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Three LGTBQ Books with Sexually Explicit Material Pulled from Waukee School

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

The Iowa Torch

The Iowa Torch​ is a for-profit, news organization that focuses on political news as it relates to Iowans

Categories

  • Education
  • Federal Government
  • Iowa History
  • Local Government
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Politics
  • State Government
  • Uncategorized
  • Uncategorized

Newsletter

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!

© 2022 The Iowa Torch, a publication of 4:15 Communications, LLC.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • State Government
  • Federal Government
  • Local Government
  • Politics
  • Education
  • Opinion

© 2022 The Iowa Torch, a publication of 4:15 Communications, LLC.